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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	7,308	5	10.1853	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44126	Two sermons preach'd at the funerals of the Right Honourable Robert Lord Lexington and the Lady Mary his wife by Samuel Holden.	Holden, Samuel, fl. 1662-1676.	1676 (1676)	Wing H2382; ESTC R28098	32,373	60

season and e're long 't will be when they themselves shall be no more They shall perish fayes the Psalmist But of the critical moment not a word in all the Book of Spheres What Tales soe're they tell of other Beings they will still keep their own counsel and whensoe're they break like to great Traders here on earth their breach shall be the worlds surprize Of that day knoweth none Their Prophecy in that is silent as their Harmony yet such a day there will be But the question is First What Heavens shall be no more Secondly How shall they be no more First What Heavens shall be no more Besides the Empyreal or Supreme Philosophers compute the number of the Orbs counting the Fire and Air to be eleven But the great Bishop of Hippo reflecting on the rapture of St Paul into the third Heaven where he had the glimpse of great unutterable glories concludes the Empyreal the Heaven of Gods more immediate splendor and the receptacle of the bless'd to see him as 't were face to face to be the third Heaven computing none besides excepting the Sydereum Aereum the Starry and the Aery But be they more or be they less the Heaven of heavens is generally exempted from dissolution which some conclude from Thy Throne is established for ever So that of all the rest although we cannot certainly determine what is their number yet we may conclude a little of their nature though we are insecure how many they be yet we may well be resolute what they shall be or rather what they shall not be They shall be no more But Secondly How no more They shall perish (t) Hebr. r. 11. Now what should be this perishing but their change For as mans death is call'd a change (u) Job 14.14 I will wait till my change come So the Heavens change is call'd a death or perishing for that the word perish imports no more in the forecited place to the Hebrews is evident from the ensuing Verse As a vesture shalt thou fold them up and they shall be changed Nay this very place the Heavens shall be no more is in the vulgar Latin atteratur Coelum till the Heavens be worn away not annihilated Worn like an old Garment Psal 102. Man is the little world and as his Cloaths cover him so the Heavens cover the great world Tegit omnia Coelum Hence Ovid. when we Travel Lucretius tells us We change the cloathing of Heaven (w) Coelimutamus amictum Conformable to this is even the Septuagint in this of Job which renders it Till the Heavens be * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 No more be sow'd together unsow'd How has God cloath'd the Macrocosme as we the Microcosme with the best Cloaths on the outside We all at great Solemnities contrive to habit our selves after the newest fashion Lo then shall Christ appear in Solemn Triumph Lo then shall be the Marriage of the Lamb and then the world shall change its fashion too The fashion of this world passes away (x) 1 Cor. 7.31 When Sunday comes 't is generally entertain'd with Citizens best Cloaths Lo then the Sabbath of the Saints shall come then the Lords day the day of the Sun of Righteousness and then the Vniverse shall be aray'd in cleaner and more splendid Vestments Now Job's shall be no more is St Peter's shall pass away whil'st the Elements melt for fervent heat (y) 2 Pet. 3.10 Now whatsoever melts melts not to nothing but into substance of a purer nature so likewise to pass away is not to cease to be but to be vary'd in its place or properties Heaven and Earth shall pass away sayes our Saviour and there shall be new Heavens and a new Earth sayes St Peter (z) 2 Pet. 3.13 Both these are united Rev. 21.5 Behold I make all things new Now to make all things new is not to make all things nothing no more than mending is destroying To be no more than is to pass into new and 't is not needless to observe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to change is render'd Psal 90.9 by passing away or passing over from whence the world is stil'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a change or passing over But you may ask What change is this 'T is not a change of substance but of accidents Heavens shall not absolutely cease to be but to be as they are so also the Elements All compound Beings except mans Body which must subsist with the Soul shall lay aside their Essence Birds and Beasts and Fish so likewise Trees and Plants which owe their Beings to their Compositions shall bid farewell to Nature when every Element shall challenge from them what each contributed to their composure Earth shall retreat to Earth Water to Water and whatsoever Fire or Air bestow'd for ever shall recede into its native properties But for more simple and unblended Natures their change shall be but a refining Some (a) Greg. Bed Gloss have conceiv'd indeed That Fire and Water should both be totally consum'd whil'st Earth and Air should be no more than mended But this the rest reject Aquinas (b) Aquin. in 2 Pet. 3. thinking that Fire and Water should but lose their heat and cold But that were neither to be Fire nor Water But that Lorinus candidly expounds him That by their losing heat and cold he means that heat and cold should be restrain'd from acting As is the change with the Elements so with the Heavens the variation's not of things but qualities Aristotle pronounced Heaven incorruptible and so it is indeed as to its fitness for duration which the Schools call its internals but not as to its power abstracted from divine disposure * Ab intrirseco Coelos esse incorruptibtl●s communis Scholasticorum est opinio i. e. secundum sabstantiam aptitudinem non dispositionem divinam actum Lo● in Psal 102.19 for whatsoe're at first results from nothing by the same vertue may relapse into nothing or as the cause of its first being pleases be vary'd from its present being Therefore THOV shalt change them (c) Psal 102.26 By which change sayes Lorinus (d) De sola nonnulla renovatione per vacationem à mo●u actu ministerio in res sublunares hominemque vitam ducentem mortalem Ibid. is meant some kind of renewing by a vacation from Motion and Action and influence on Sublunaries and on Man leading a mortal life And thus being alter'd they will better suit with the condition of renew'd Mankind In which St Austin tells us That at the general Conflagration those qualities of the corruptible Elements which agreed well enough with our corruptible Bodies shall utterly perish by Combustion And the same substance shall by miraculous change acquire qualities convenient for immortal Bodies to the end that the world being renewed for the better may the better suit with men renew'd for the better in their flesh (e) Conflagratione